Wow, I'm not sure if this is WaPo's logic, or the study's logic, but apparently a small total is a big impact.
It also got Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and the left-leaning Center for American Progress thinking about the role firearms play in hate crimes.
The role, CAP found, is substantial.
Firearms were used or threatened to be used in 43,000 hate crimes from 2010 through 2014, according to a CAP report released on Wednesday
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Large as the number of gun-related hate crimes may be, it represents just a small fraction of the overall total, which CAP estimates at more than 1.2 million over that five-year period.
This is nothing but free PR for CAP and Cicilline's bill. In fact, I'd be shocked if this was nothing more than a slightly rewritten press release.
